Tel Aviv

By Doug Struck and Danna Bethlehem and Doug Struck and Danna Bethlehem,Jerusalem Bureau of The Sun | October 20, 1994

TEL AVIV -- The suicide bomber aimed for the soul of modern Israel yesterday when he chose a bus on Dizengoff Street for his deadly work."Dizengoff was the shop window of Israel, like 5th Avenue. It is a street that is identified with our existence here," said Yossi Melman, author of the book "The New Israelis."If any single street represents the way the silent majority of Israel sees itself, it is Dizengoff. They view it as a mix of Greenwich Village and Rodeo Drive, a place of chic boutiques, sidewalk cafes and a changing parade of the beautiful and the ordinary.

A local high school graduate who joined the Israel Defense Forces last year has been wounded in Gaza, his father said Monday. Jordan Low, a 19-year-old sharpshooter in Israel's Golani Brigade, was one of 15 soldiers investigating what they believed was a Hamas weapons cache in northern Gaza on Sunday when two rockets struck the building, according to Jeffrey Low of Pikesville. Jordan Low suffered injuries consistent with smoke inhalation, his father said. He was recovering Monday in the intensive care unit at Rabin Medical Center in Tel Aviv.

TEL AVIV, Israel -- An Iraqi missile struck here this morning, injuring 17 and jolting Israel from its growing sense of security. One person suffered "medium" injuries, and the others were slightly injured, according to authorities.The single rocket, which carried a conventional warhead, was the first attack on the country since Sunday and was the first to cause injuries since Jan. 26.A Patriot missile was seen streaking toward the incoming rocket, but it failed to halt the Scud.The Iraqi missile ripped the front walls off concrete buildings and left gaping holes in several cement-block walls.

Eggs, cabbage, celery, beets - not great ingredients for an omelet, perhaps, but ideal for a multimedia genre defined as "puppet cinema. " Welcome to "Planet Egg," a show taking over the Baltimore Theatre Project for the weekend with a mix of edibles, found objects, puppetry, music and live-feed video. It's the brainchild of Zvi Sahar, an Israeli-born, New Jersey-based actor, director and puppeteer. At his parents' home in Israel a few years ago, Sahar was watching his father working on a phone and his mother making sunny-side-up eggs.

El Al Israel Airlines is considering flying out of Baltimore-Washington International Airport, a move that could lead to direct flights from Baltimore to Tel Aviv.Talks are continuing and details have not been worked out with state transportation officials, but "a final decision will be made in a week or two," a spokeswoman for the airline, Sheryl Stein, said.News that El Al airlines is close to a decision pleased state officials, who for the past two years have been working to boost the international stature of BWI."

By DOUG STRUCK and DOUG STRUCK,Jerusalem Bureau of The Sun | October 20, 1994

A photo caption in yesterday's editions erroneously said that Tel Aviv is the former capital of Israel.The Sun regrets the error.TEL AVIV, Israel -- A terrorist with a bomb turned a sunny morning rush hour into a scene of death yesterday, killing 20 aboard a crowded commuter bus and further shaking Israeli faith in the peace process.The attack led immediately to demands from politicians and the public for retaliation by the Israeli government.Police believe a suicide bomber boarded the No. 5 bus that makes its way through the downtown district and detonated the explosive in the deadliest terrorist attack in Israel in 16 years.

TEL AVIV, Israel -- The whine of missiles overhead cried out to her past, said Erika Landau, and her stomach clenched with that old feeling of helplessness.Once again, she was a target as a Jew.Huddled alone in her apartment, the phone dead and the lights knocked off by a nearby rocket blast, the 59-year-old woman found in the dark a fear she had thought was buried.Another madman who does not know her -- who does not know the joy she has brought to students in the school she runs, or know the parents she has helped through psychotherapy, or know even of the delicious soup she makes at home -- this madman seeks to kill her."

TEL AVIV, Israel - Three people were killed and dozens more were injured yesterday in Tel Aviv when a bomb exploded at a currency exchange shop in what police suspect was an attempt by Israeli mobsters to assassinate a rival kingpin. The attack marked the third time in four months that bystanders have been killed in mob-related violence. Police, overwhelmed by Palestinian suicide bombings, vowed to strike back. "What's new and worrying to us is that many innocent people are dying," Israeli police spokesman Gil Kleiman said.

By David Zurawik and David Zurawik,Sun Television Critic | January 18, 1991

It would have been hard to imagine yesterday afternoon that there could be television any more gripping than Wednesday night's broadcasts by CNN from Baghdad, the Iraqi capital.But then came last night's initial reports out of Israel -- with pictures of reporters in gas masks and the sounds of sirens in the background -- after Tel Aviv was hit by Iraqi missiles.Watching it was an intense, frightening and, at times, surreal experience.Unlike Wednesday night, when the story belonged to CNN after the first 20 minutes, all four major news organizations were in the hunt with live hookups to correspondents in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.

Maryland will open new international trade offices in Tel Aviv and Shanghai and hire consultants to represent the state in Buenos Aires, Mexico City, Santiago and Sao Paulo, Gov. Parris N. Glendening said yesterday.The moves are part of the state's efforts to help small and medium-size Maryland firms develop business in rapidly emerging markets by providing them with one year of intensive assistance."If we can help these firms get their foot in the door overseas, the growth potential for both the companies and Maryland's economy is enormous," Glendening said in a statement released yesterday following the annual Governor's International Forum at the World Trade Center.

Carol Benjamin didn't like having the bull's-eye on her back. Competing in the seventh Maccabiah Games in 1965, she despised the pressure that came with being one of the most highly regarded athletes in fencing. And she didn't like the idea that if she didn't come away with a gold medal, she had failed to meet expectations. It was an unpleasant feeling for the then-19-year-old New York native, but it didn't stop her from finishing first and continuing her success in the sport by winning the NCAA championship in 1966.

The 84-year-old father of one of my employees was recently detained at an airport for 10 minutes because he had trimmed the edge of his driver's license so it would fit inside his wallet. Yet on Christmas Day, a 23-year-old Nigerian on a comprehensive terror watch list - whose father warned U.S. authorities of his radical religious views and who paid cash for his ticket and checked no baggage - boarded an international flight for Detroit, apparently without so much as a second glance.

Amateur lacrosse Check-Hers beats Stars Gold to win championship in Bel Air Top-seeded Check-Hers 2012, composed mainly of players from Carroll County public schools, cruised to a 19-12 win over 11th-seeded Stars Gold (Va.) to claim the US Lacrosse U-15 national championship trophy at Cedar Lane Sports Park in Bel Air. Madison Cyr, a rising sophomore at Winters Mill, scored six goals and added two assists to help her team finish three days of play unbeaten, and land herself a spot on the Lacrosse Magazine All-Tournament Team.

TEL AVIV, Israel -There was a map of the Holy Land on the front flap of my mother's Bible. It was colored in pale pinks and blues and it showed Bethlehem, Jerusalem, Galilee and the Jordan River. The names told the story of the life of Jesus Christ, but to me the map made it real. Older now, I have graduated from dreaming over maps to visiting places embedded in my consciousness, above all Israel. It is just a sliver of land about the size of New Jersey but deep in terms of time. I had only a week to devote to the trip, so I had to be selective.

By Ahmed Burai and Jeffrey Fleishman and Ahmed Burai and Jeffrey Fleishman,Los Angeles Times | January 7, 2009

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Shells fired by Israeli forces hit a United Nations school yesterday, killing at least 30 Palestinians who had sought shelter there on a day when Israeli forces pushed deeper into the Gaza Strip and a Hamas rocket struck a town about 20 miles south of Tel Aviv. Street battles rumbled across the Palestinian enclave and bloodshed showed no signs of ebbing, despite renewed calls by Arab and European leaders for the U.N. Security Council to demand a cease-fire. International pressure on Israel intensified after Palestinian medical officials reported that 75 Gazans were killed yesterday as Israeli forces swept into more densely populated areas.

14 injured in train fire under English Channel COQUELLES, France: A fire broke out yesterday on a train carrying trucks under the English Channel between England and France, injuring 14 people and shutting down traffic in the underwater rail tunnel, officials said. About 100 firefighters from both sides of the channel got the blaze under control, but it was not entirely extinguished hours later, said Georges Bos, a spokesman for France's Pas-de-Calais region, which was handling the emergency response.

By Doug Struck and Doug Struck,Sun Staff Correspondent Peter H. Frank of The Sun's business staff contributed to this article from Baltimore | January 18, 1991

TEL AVIV, Israel -- Iraq struck weakly at Israel this morning with conventional missiles that caused a dozen slight injuries and some damage here and in Haifa, the government said.A spokesman said Israel was "considering" whether to retaliate. Dozens of Israeli jets creased the night air, but it was unclear whether they were on attack or defense.This morning Lt. Gen. Dan Shomron, the Israeli chief of staff, said, "The fact the missiles were fired at a civilian population is a very grave occurrence.

Uncertain when the next Iraqi missile will be launched at Tel Aviv, Baltimore-area native Margery Greenfeld Morgan finds herself reluctant to take a shower and wash her hair.If the air raid sirens sounded while she was in the shower, she would have just over a minute to rinse off, grab her gas mask and run to the sealed room in her house in the suburbs of the city."You develop these fears," Mrs. Morgan, 40, who grew up in Pikesville and moved to Israel when she was 22, said in a telephone interview.

TEL AVIV, Israel - As Israel celebrates its 60th birthday, there's a remarkable spirit and courage here. Despite the rising tide of Islamism that surrounds the country and the constant threats to destroy it, Israel bustles with energy, commerce, science and the arts. And, most of the time, its people display a convinced optimism that Israel is here to stay. But the image of Auschwitz, or some future version of it, is never far away. Neither is the dread that, in the end, the country could be annihilated - or at least relentlessly worn down.

Yuri Lane takes a little CNN and sprinkles it generously with some MTV in From Tel Aviv to Ramallah: A Beatbox Journey, a one-man hip-hop show about the Middle East conflict that opens today at Center Stage. "It can be hard to find the perfect adjective to describe something," Lane said. "Sometimes, you can express things better with music and sound than with words." The self-titled "hip-hop Jew," who has several television, film and theater credits to his name, uses beatbox, mime, song and dance to tell the story of two towns and two young men striving for normality amid the surrounding strife of the conflict.